NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It wasn’t aliens. But artist ...

The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.

Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet's surface ...

Martin A. B. Cohen said he took this picture from Warsash beach, in Hampshire, at 19:30 BST on Saturday People from around the UK have been taking pictures of the "comet of the century", which was ...

NEOWISE, NASA’s retired infrared telescope, has tracked numerous near-Earth objects and discovered a rare comet since 2013.

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in 2009 and was placed in hibernation in ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates ...

Captured by the LASCO instrument on NASA's SOHO Observatory, which orbits Earth, the latest image shows comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) — also known as comet A3 — just three days before it ...

The origin of Earth’s abundant liquid water is still debated. Research suggests some water came from volcanic vapor that ...

Telescopes in space have provided stunning new images of Comet A3, the so-called “comet of the century”. The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found ...